Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-03
THE OHIO PLATFORM.
Senator John Sherman Endorsed for tn
Presidency.


assembled submits To the people OF Ohio
the following declaration OF its prlncl-
pies:
1--WE are in favor of d protective tariff,
to secure to American citizens the priv
1eges of supplying every article which
can be produced as we'll IN the United
States as in other countries, and sufti-
GENTLY to supply American wants.
Such tariff makes demand
for and gives employment to Ameri-
can labor and thereby aids in secur-
ing Just compensation for labor. We
denOunce the Ohio Democratic platform
of tariff for revenue only, and which
demands an indiscrimlnate reduction In
all duties on imported articles, the effect
of which would be to encourage lmporta-
tons, thus giving American patronage
to foreign producers and foreign labor,
rather than to our own.
THE EMIGRATION QUESTION.
sEWhile we adhere to the public pol
icy under which our country has re-
ceived from Europe, great hordes Of
honest, industrious citizens who have
added to the wealth, progress and
power of our country. and while we
welcome to our shores the Well-dis-
posed and industrious emigrant, who
contributes by his energy and intelli-
gence to the cause of free government,
we view with alarm unrestricted immi-
grafton from foreign lands as dangerous
to the peace and good order of the coun-
try and the integrity and character of
citizenship. We urge Congress to pass
such laws and establish such regulations
as shall protect us from the inroads of the
Anarchist, the Communist, the Polyga-
mist, fugitive from justice, the insane,
the dependent paupers, the vicious and
criminal classes, contract labor in every
form under any name or gnise; and all
others, who seek our shores not to be-
come part of our civilization and citi-
zenship, who acknowledge no allegi-
ance to our laws, no sympathy with our
aims and institutions, but who come
among us to make war upon society, to
diminish the dignity and rewards of
AMERICAN woRKINGMEN
and degrade our labor to their level.
Against all these our gates should be
closed. But while favoring every hon.
orabie and practicable measure to pro-
tect American labor against the
evil effects of foreign immigration
and competition, we recognize, also,
the dangers which menace 1t at home
and condemn as hostile to its cause and
as subversiye of its dignity and power,
the bold and persistent usurpation in
many of the states of its political rights
and privileges. The condition of the
men who labor in the North cannot be
maintained or improved, so long as the
men who labor in the South are wrong
fully deprived of the rights and power of
American citizenship. Their labor meets
in close and immediate competition, and
neither can be degraded without strik-
ne at the prosperity and independence
of the other. Recognizing these plain
truths we demand free ballot and fair
count in all sections of our country. We
demand it and will ever demand it as
the only source Of justice to the real
producers of prosperity and wealth, and
the sole security of the republic and it's
tree Institutions.
NATIONAL STRIFE.
eve deprecate national strife and
divisions. We have placed the war,
with its hates and revenges behind us !;
but the settlements of the war must
stand acknowledgements, honored
and observed in every part of the Re
public. More We have never demanded !;
less we will net have. Congress should
exercise its. constitutional authority,
and take control and supervision of
elections OF representatives to Congress-
1--WE demand such duties on wool and
manufactures thereof as will secure the
American market to American produc-
ers We denounce the demand made
under President Cleyeland's administra-
ton by the secretary of the treasury in
his annual report Of December 6, 1886,
for the immediate passage of an act
placing raw wool upon the free list and
we denounce the Democratic state plat
form which 'proclaims its hearty and
cd endorsement of sold cd
ministration, and demands reduction
of the present duties On wool and on
WOODEN and worsted goods Such re-
duction would destroy the wool growing
and wooden manufacturing Industries,
would invite large imports,
BREAK DOWN AMERICAN COMPETITION,
and give the control of cur market to
foreign producers who would ultimately
demand exorbitant prices. We earnest
" protest against the decisions of the
secretary Of the treasury in customs
cases IN the interest of the foreign pro-
ducer and foreign labor, as in opposi-
ton to the letter and spirit of the tariff
laws.
We favor liberal pensions to the SOL
dierS and sailors Of the Union, adequate
appropriations 1or the improvement Of
our national waterways, and national
be collected to meet these and other
public needs, we demand that the first
step in the reduction thereof shall be
the abolition of the internal tax upon
American grown tobacco.
The public lands of the United States
should be sacredly held for the use and
benefit Of actual settlers alone, and the
laws preventing the ownership of these
lands Dv corporations and nonresident
aliens should be rigidly enforced.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
'tWhiie we condemn the false pre-
teuses of President Cleveland's admins
tration of the civil service law, we advo-
cate the maintenance and proper en-
forcement of said law, and demand such
additional legislation as will remove ap-
pointments from partisan influence.
''The Republican party has ever been
the friend of oppressed nationalities;
and we extend our hearty sympathy to
Gladstone, Parnell and their associates
i'll their efforts to secure home rule for
Ireland
eve condemn the action of Mr..
Cleveland in vetoing pension bills, and
especially we denounce the spirit mani
'n~ted toward the MANNED and disabled
Sni1IAFg of tho IN tho